17 February 2010

Saeed for Central campaign backed by leading lawyer

Osama Saeed’s bid to become SNP MP for Glasgow Central has received high profile endorsement from one of Scotland’s leading legal figures.

Human rights lawyer Aamer Anwar, also renowned for his campaigning on issues such as race and peace, has said that new political leadership is required in Glasgow.

Anwar commented:

"I am not a member of any political party, but believe that Osama Saeed's Westminster campaign is hugely important and a change is desperately needed in Glasgow Central. Having known him for a number of years, his record on community matters is impeccable.

“I am delighted to be associated with individuals like Osama Saeed who have a record of fighting injustice and poverty.”

Osama Saeed said he was grateful for the endorsement which was extremely significant:

“My campaign in Glasgow Central has liberty, peace and justice as its core values. Aamer Anwar is one of the chief champions of these causes in our country, and so I greatly value his support."

The SNP have shown themselves to a genuine party of consensus and progress. They have demonstrated the most forward thinking social policies in Western Europe.It has been a pleasure to work within the NHS under the leadership of the SNP, who have put the people of Scotland first over an establishment Labour Party that has been responsible for 2 million Iraqi and Afghan deaths together with the greatest home social inequalities, and a determination to run down the NHS and replace it with an American style privatised health system for the those who can afford it only. We are sick and tired of corrupt Labour millionaires absenting themselves from parliament whilst claiming to represent the people of Glasgow and attempting to further injustice through nepotism.